The white house just quadrupled the signature threshold for petitions. [View all]

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Occupy Wall Street ‏@OccupyWallStNYC

Practicing democracy gets harder & harder. The @whitehouse just quadrupled the signature threshold for petitions. !#%$* http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57564203-93/white-house-raises-petition-signature-threshold-to-100k/ …

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57564203-93/white-house-raises-petition-signature-threshold-to-100k/

(I cannot get the page to open after multiple attempts. Please help yourselves to whatever is there.)

You know this has to be in response to the petition to fire the two DOJ prosecutors who hounded Aaron Swartz to his death, knowing he suffered from depression? Because that petition found over 25K signatures in just one day? That day being yesterday...)